Core Constraint
Core Constraint
MAX_TEAMMATES = 10 (set in .claude/settings.json — git-tracked)
Recommended sweet spot: 2–3 teammates for this workspace's workload
Default to fewer agents, not more. Spawn only as many as strictly needed. Coordination overhead grows quadratically; benefits only appear when tasks are truly parallel and long-running.
MAX_TEAMMATES=10 is a ceiling, not a target. The realistic effective range
for workspace-hub engineering work is 2–3 teammates. Raising it above that
adds token cost with diminishing returns given the predominantly sequential
solver-pipeline nature of the work.